December 2009 Blog Posts (3)

Some days ago, I happened to attend a seminar. Speaker was a well-known professor and audience was a group of senior executives.

The Professor walked into the hall wearing a formal suite, set up his machine, switched off the lights, opened a PowerPoint presentation and started his speech. Within 10 minutes of his speech, the audience started yawning followed by whispering.

I started thinking why people are unable to listen to such a well-known professor even for 10… Continue

Visual workplace
Clauses 6.3 Infrastructure and 6.4 Work Environment of ISO9001 standard can improve organization performance to a large extend. Many times in a QMS defined, it just given a passing reference. Below is a article from ‘Lean Manufacturing’.
This also applies to IT and ITES where physical layout is in soft form.
When you are driving, do you normally follow the laws of the road by listening to auditory cues, or do you normally use visual cues to guide you through the… Continue

It is scientifically proven that Loss Prevention is the primary and most effective way to improve performance. As it relates to optimizing internal capacities, it is quite easier and faster than applying any external improvement techniques. No external applications would result unless all causes of internal loss are prevented. Let us consider example of a balloon. You will not be able to blow it to size with whatever amount of air, until it has even one small hole. Similarly, you need to… Continue